a short reflection in relation to your own family album, and how do you thin family photography has changed since this exhibition was created 17 years ago?
I have many family albums but they are all lost in the ether, i think the last place i saw them was a box at my old house at the coast. Their was a individual album for each my brothers and sister so 5 or more albums, and on top of that their was other family albums!. I clearly remember they had many great memories of things like pets we used to have, houses we used to live in, people we used to know and family holidays we went on. i can recall their is a family album we have of when mum,dad my brother and i went around Australia but i have no clue where it is? its quite a shame really because i have so many memories from that trip. In that sort of sense it feels like i have lost part of my childhood, and not until i find those albums i wont remember all of these hidden memories i have. like Williams said "closed doors where open and memories exhumed"
i think family photography has changed since the exhibition immensely. Soon as the digital camera was brought around pictures became cheaper and more regularly available, so in that kind of sense family photos became less scripted because if was a bad picture or someone was pulling a funny face it would be less expensive to develop, so it gave room for error and faults if some was mucking up. when you look up family photos from 18 years ago, they all look so 'tacky' and 'fake' everyone is in a line pulling a cheesy grin dressed in their nice clothes but now days the family photo is of people out in a park or the at home it just looks so much more genuine
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